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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
Management Innovation Take Us? Management could change a lot in the coming years, says HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett. A few reasons: continued development of the Internet and the transparency and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session moderated by HBS professor emeritus James L. View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- News
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Secrets Behind a VC Success Story
Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) never intended to make a career of venture capital. But he turned out to be pretty good at picking winners and helped propel Accel Partners into the ranks of the top VC firms. more Case-Method Godfather Chris... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
social-purpose enterprises," Nelson said recently. "Led by faculty chair Professor Jim Austin, the Initiative's research, course development, and publications have had a significant impact on many of our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Systems Fieldbook coedited by Gerald D. Klein (MBA ’67) (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer) Aimed at helping leaders building organizations characterized by extensive collaboration, this book guides readers in making the most of the intellectual capital they have assembled. Klein... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
enterprise owners. In his first year, he also learned that just a few individuals can affect the course of an entire society. He found Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE), taught by Professor Emeritus View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
classes, and rank among the best-selling cases of all time. To try to understand why these cases are so successful, we spoke with the professors who originally wrote them (including James Heskett, at left), and with those who still teach... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
chair. Key figures in the initiative credit Whitehead with playing a pivotal role in the program’s success. Professor emeritus Jim Austin, a cofounder and former chair of SEI, calls Whitehead “an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
are: Paul A. Buttenwieser, AB ’60, MD ’64. Psychiatrist; Novelist. Cambridge, MA. Sidney R. Knafel, AB ’52, MBA ’54. Managing Partner, SRK Management Company. New York, NY. Roxane Harvey Gudeman, AB ’62, Ed.M. ’64; Ph.D. ’81, University of Minnesota. Adjunct View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Medical Center” (CCHMC) details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall perfor-mance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
lecturer at HMS. It was Binagwaho who, in 2005, invited Farmer and his grassroots medical organization, Partners In Health (PIH), to work in her country, based on PIH’s success in Haiti. The Rwanda case discussion was led by one of its authors, former WHO official and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
the challenges of daily existence in an unfamiliar culture to the joys of helping people in poverty grow their own businesses. The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance by Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) (Harvard Business Review... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
“The country was on fire,” says Jan Hammond, the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. “You saw the strength of public response in the composition of the people who were protesting. They comprised a wide swath of American society: no... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
coats and ties. The first time he dared to speak in class, he used the Canadian pronunciation of the word “schedule” — SHED-yool — and was none-too-gently mocked by his professor and classmates. One of the students in the classroom that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
to see a woman play—and it worked! But Toni’s persistence and optimism were not enough to win over the Jim Crow South crowds nor her male teammates. Coaches put her in the starting lineup and then benched her early, every game, no matter... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart,” HBS professor Jim Sebenius and Research Associate Ellen Knebel show two very different organizations doing just that. The cases are part of a series that involve hard... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
since the Civil War era brought with him to Washington like-minded men who quickly set to work segregating the federal government. Wilson’s own sympathy for Jim Crow and states’ rights animated his years-long hostility to the Susan B.... View Details